Saul M. Kassin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199778188
- eISBN:
- 9780190256043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199778188.003.0053
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Saul M. Kassin reflects on his most underappreciated work: a paper entitled “Deposition testimony and the surrogate witness: Evidence for a messenger effect in persuasion.” Published in 1983 in ...
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Saul M. Kassin reflects on his most underappreciated work: a paper entitled “Deposition testimony and the surrogate witness: Evidence for a messenger effect in persuasion.” Published in 1983 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the study explored the “messenger effect” in persuasion by testing whether a jury's impression of an absentee witness can be altered through a change in the reader's demeanor. The results of a mock jury experiment conducted by Kassin showed that the messenger effect resembles the fundamental attribution error by which social perceivers take behavior at face value without sufficient appreciation of contextual factors.Less
Saul M. Kassin reflects on his most underappreciated work: a paper entitled “Deposition testimony and the surrogate witness: Evidence for a messenger effect in persuasion.” Published in 1983 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the study explored the “messenger effect” in persuasion by testing whether a jury's impression of an absentee witness can be altered through a change in the reader's demeanor. The results of a mock jury experiment conducted by Kassin showed that the messenger effect resembles the fundamental attribution error by which social perceivers take behavior at face value without sufficient appreciation of contextual factors.
John Bende
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226761473
- eISBN:
- 9780226761466
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226761466.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter argues that the British novelists of the early eighteenth century adopted three elements of natural philosophy in fashioning their narratives: surrogate witnessing, the contrived ...
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This chapter argues that the British novelists of the early eighteenth century adopted three elements of natural philosophy in fashioning their narratives: surrogate witnessing, the contrived experiment, and the induction-based reasoning that could translate the findings of a single experiment into truths of general validity. It shows how early novelists fashioned printed texts into experiments that mediated different kinds of knowledge as a means of mediating the fictional and the real. The tools described both confer experience to the fictional characters and advance the judgment of both characters and readers.Less
This chapter argues that the British novelists of the early eighteenth century adopted three elements of natural philosophy in fashioning their narratives: surrogate witnessing, the contrived experiment, and the induction-based reasoning that could translate the findings of a single experiment into truths of general validity. It shows how early novelists fashioned printed texts into experiments that mediated different kinds of knowledge as a means of mediating the fictional and the real. The tools described both confer experience to the fictional characters and advance the judgment of both characters and readers.
